Andy Green, the Royal Air Force pilot who drove Thrust SSC on its record run is scheduled to do the same in the Bloodhound. One challenger to Noble’s effort, the North American Eagle project ...

Dubbed Thrust SuperSonic Car (or Thrust SSC, for short), the record-breaking ... literally requiring a ton of fuel for each record-breaking run. While building a behemoth like the SSC required ...

The needle-nose car made two runs Newquay Airport in Cornwall, U.K., on Thursday with land speed record holder Andy ... when he hit 763.035 in the Thrust SSC. This time, he only reached 210 ...

but the original plan—as we reported here—was for the team to make a first attempt on the record later this year, trying to push it beyond the supersonic speed set by Thrust SSC in 1997.

Unsurprisingly, the car drank a huge amount of fuel, averaging around 0.4 mpg over the run, according to the Land Speed Record website. The Thrust SSC weighed about 10 tons, which presented the ...

The event comes on the heels of the 20th anniversary of the team's previous and still-standing world land speed record of 763.035 ... with the Thrust SSC, the only car ever to travel faster ...

It's been 20 years since the Thrust SSC made its record-breaking speed run, becoming the only car to ever travel faster than the speed of sound. Yet as its driver explains, it wasn't as simple as ...

The Thrust SSC was silent in its menacing and ... This is the inside story of that run. The Guinness Book of World Records, the ultimate arbiter of all things that are the biggest or the smallest ...

If Bloodhound succeeds, it will be breaking another British-set record, Thrust SSC’s run to a just-supersonic 763 mph in 1997. The presence of many Thrust veterans on the Bloodhound project ...

And towards the end of the run, the team realized the car produced a massive sonic boom in the Nevada desert. It's the only car ever to do so. The Thrust SSC's record still stands today ...

By the way, the sonic boom produced by Thrust SSC’s record-setting land speed run did some damage. About 10 miles away in the Nevada town of Gerlach, sprinkler covers were knocked off by the ...

But the current world record is held by a rather special machine, and it has remained intact for over two decades. The "car" in question is the Thrust SSC, and it managed to achieve that record ...